Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Resource Kit

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Summary: Good but Pricey Intro, Much Better Alternatives
Review: As a practicing certified systems engineer in a major corporation with a very large network of NT servers and workstations and a variety of other systems, the only tools I've found useful in the Resource Kits are those involving deployment. Ghost and Ghost Walker, however, have completely replaced them. QUE's MCSE TestPrep Core Exams and other volumes on Windows NT are better written, far more extensible, and better targeted for everyone from the beginning through the professional user.

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Summary: Non-descriptive
Review: Compared with the 3.5x resource kit this one was rather weak. It seems to be focused to the first time NT user rather than the technical one

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Summary: Good Resource, needs more
Review: For those of you who dont like the fact that the juicy details that were in the 3.5x resource kit arent in the 4.0 resource kit. There is a reason, the 4.0 kit was meant to be a supplement to the 3.5x kit. I could never get Microsoft to publicly admit it though.

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Summary: Good but Pricey Intro, Much Better Alternatives
Review: Has technical details neccessary for fault tollerance/recovery, thick details about architecture, connectivity and lots of great tools on the cd-rom. Complement this with the NT Workstation RK and you'll have good source for studying for NT Admin-Enterprise-TCP/IP test for MCSE. Stuff in here that is not in courseware.

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Summary: A must for the NT Admin Pro
Review: Has technical details neccessary for fault tollerance/recovery, thick details about architecture, connectivity and lots of great tools on the cd-rom. Complement this with the NT Workstation RK and you'll have good source for studying for NT Admin-Enterprise-TCP/IP test for MCSE. Stuff in here that is not in courseware.

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Summary: The circle is complete
Review: Microsoft can't write an operating system - what makes them think they can write a book or two?

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Summary: This book is great for beginners!
Review: The manuals are absolutely useless and insultingly remedial. The only valuable aspect of the resource kit is the included software, which can be obtained elsewhere. You'll be better off with a subscription to Microsoft TechNet.

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Summary: Don't bother opening the shrink-wrap
Review: The manuals are absolutely useless and insultingly remedial. The only valuable aspect of the resource kit is the included software, which can be obtained elsewhere. You'll be better off with a subscription to Microsoft TechNet.

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Summary: Great for management, terrible for techies
Review: This book gives a good overview of IIS4, but if you actually want to know how it works and how to use it to publish your site, forget it. There are no technical details at all, just loads of 'microsoft are the best' brainwashing. I was not impressed. want to know how it works and how to use it to publish your site, forget it. There are no technical details at all.'microsoft are the best'. I was not impressed

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Summary: indispensable for NT Server administrators
Review: This is the documentation that Microsoft should have included with every copy of NT Server. Every administrator should have this kit. The tools are userful and the documentation essential.